Re: Scandinavian conlang
| From: | Dirk Elzinga <dirk_elzinga@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 5, 2003, 18:19 |
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On Saturday, May 3, 2003, at 09:25 AM, Stone Gordonssen wrote:
>> with a Southern <Uto-Aztecan morpho-syntax.
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>> Frisian and Middle English phonology, Scandinavian orthography - yes;
>> Uto-Aztecan morpho-syntax - a definite NO.
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> Out of curiosity, why Uto-Aztecan?
It's from my professional life. I work on the languages of the Great
Basin, which are also Uto-Aztecan. The features I'm attracted to for
Ustekkli are the absolutive suffixes (these are *not* case suffixes,
but rather suffixes attached to nouns in "citation" form, roughly),
second position clitic syntax, and switch reference.
Dirk
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